By Julia Furlan: WNYC Culture Producer On the streets, stage and screen, New York City is no stranger to the multi-regional staccatos of the Spanish accent. Nearly 17 percent of the city’s population hails from the Spanish-speaking world—from the tip of Southern Chile through Central America and the Caribbean to Spain. That’s created a movement […]

By ANA ELENA AZPURUA, The Associated Press: NEW YORK October 13, 2010 (AP) Two sopranos, dressed in long black gowns, merged their voices with a tenor and a baritone under crystal chandeliers. “Other opera companies, the traditional ones in New York, introduce everything in Italian, in French and in German, but Opera Hispanica is going […]